I had a nice little virtual machine running on a VMWare esxi cluster. The filesystem was getting a bit full so I though I would take some notes as I went through the steps to grow the filesystem from the…
If you are using Cacti to monitor and graph all of your SNMP devices in your network then you will probably want to add your VMware ESXi hosts into your Cacti configuration. I have yet to find a good Cacti…
If you are like most system administrators, you will want to monitor everything you can. Enabling SNMP on each of your devices helps you in this task. If you have VMware ESXi servers, you will want to enable SNMP on…
Let me begin by saying that most people running the vCenter appliance are typically using Essentials versions of VMware. This example case is using VMware Essentials Plus. In smaller VMware installations, it is simpler to install a new version of…
I had an issue with one of my VMWare hosts the other day where I learned a few things I thought that I would share here. In my case, the host became extremely sluggish which affected the virtual machines hosted…
If you have been around VMWare long, then you have cloned, restored or otherwise copied a virtual machine. When the copied virtual machine is created, it is given a different MAC address, which causes VMWare to see its network adapter…
VMware vCenter Server Appliance Eliminates the Need for Windows Server In the past, vCenter required a Windows server as part of the system requirements. As of VMware vCenter 5.0, VMware has a second option for the vCenter Server. They have…
Once you have your VMware private cloud system all set up, you will likely want to convert any physical machines that you have to virtual machines on your cloud system. To help you with this task, VMware created their VMware…
Successful P2V Conversion I use the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone frequently to migrate physical machines to my VMware cloud. One error that I get frequently after a successful conversion of CentOS 5 system is: Kernel Panic Using VMware vCenter Converter…
Installing a VMWare private cloud was a huge step in making my sysadmin life easier. Then, adding Veeam backup and replication made it simple. Disaster Recovery Made Simple With VMWare I have had to make several Disaster Recovery plans throughout…